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Method and apparatus for secure content delivery over broadband access networks

  • US 7,017,188 B1
  • Filed: 05/12/1999
  • Issued: 03/21/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/16/1998
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method for securely delivering content over a network comprising:

  • storing at least one title on a content server operatively coupled to the network, the title stored in unexecutable form;

    storing on an access server operatively coupled to the network an identifier of the title as well as data unique to the title to process the title into executable form;

    requiring a client process operatively coupled to the network to obtain the identifier of the title from the access server prior to retrieving at least a portion of the title from the content server; and

    requiring a client process to obtain from the access server the data unique to the title to process the portion of the title into executable form.

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